… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.
Tag Archives: machine learning
AI helps experts find thousands of child sexual abuse imagery keywords
For years, abusers have used complex keywords to covertly talk about imagery, but analysts have sussed out much of the secret code.
Russia’s FSB wanted its own IoT botnet
If you thought the Mirai botnet was bad, what about a version under the control of Russia’s military that it could point like an electronic cannon at people it didn’t like?
IWD: biometrics, machine learning, privacy and being a woman in tech – Naked Security Podcast
To celebrate International Women’s Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode.
Huge flaw found in how facial features are measured from images
It has to do with optics: faces appear to flatten out as we get further away. Our brains compensate, but AI-run facial recognition doesn’t.
Smart speakers mistakenly eavesdrop up to 19 times a day
That smart home speaker isn’t listening to everything you say, according to new research – but it is listening a lot more than it should.
Google purges 600 Android apps for “disruptive” pop-up ads
These apps plunk ads in front of us when we’re trying to do something else, often leading to inadvertent ad clicks and much cursing.
Self-driving car dataset missing labels for pedestrians, cyclists
Udacity Dataset 2, used to train thousands of engineers, contained thousands of unlabeled vehicles and hundreds of unlabeled pedestrians.
Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.
Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’
Twitter isn’t interested in how the “synthetic or manipulated” media is created, but if it has the potential to cause harm it’ll be removed.